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FASTENING FOB BAG 0R POCKET BOOK FRAMES NO. 358,958. Patented Mar. 8, 1887.

N. PETERS. Phuwhlhograpber. Washingion. n. r;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES BLUST, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM SOHIMPER 8: 00., OF SAME PLACE.

FASTENlNG FOR BAG 0R POCKET-BOOK FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,958, dated March 8, 1887. Application filed December 30, i886. Serial No. 222,913. No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Grrnnnns BLUsT, of the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fastenings for Bag or Pocket-Book Frames, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is applicable to fastenings which are employed to connect the two hinged side portions of the frames of pocketbooks, bags, or purses; and the invention relates to that class of fastenings which are severally hinged to one frame portion and engaged by a pin or projection and hole or recess with the 15 other frame portion.

The invention consists in novel details in the construction and manner of combining the parts of the fastening, as particularly hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a transverse section of a bag frame and fastening embodying my invention, the fastening being adjusted to hold the frame portions together with the bag closed. Fig. 2 is a plan of the parallel bars of the two frame portions and the catch or fastening swung back, so as to free them from each other. Fig. 3 is a rear view of a base-piece, which receives a knob comprised in the fastening, and which is provided with a laterally-extending arm, whereby it is hinged to one frame portion. Fig. 4 is a side view of a projecting lug or car, to which the arm of said base-piece is hinged,and which is itself riveted or fastened to one of the frame portions; and Fig. 5 is a sectional view corresponding to the upper portion of 1, but showing a slight modification of my invention.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A A designate the two side portions of a bag-frame, which are hinged together at I), and which are here represented as of hollow or tubular construction.

The fastening comprises a knob, B, which, by means of a pin or projection, b, and a hole or recess, 1), engages the frame portion A. In the example of my invention shown in Fig. 1, the hole or recess 1) is formed in the knob B, and the pin or projection b is riveted fast 50 to the frame portion A 5 but in the example of the invention shown in Fig. 5 the pin or projection b is upon the knob 13, and the hole or recess b with which it engages, is formed in the frame portion A. It will be obvious that these two constructions are full equivalents one of the other.

In both examples of my invention just described it will be seen that the point of engagement between the knob B and the frame portion A is at about the center of the knob, and hence the knob occupies a position above the frame portion A, with which it detachably engages. Ihe knob B is fitted in a concave base-piece, G, which is made separate therefrom and is constructed to form a seat for the downward projection of the knob, and the knob may be secured by solder or otherwise in said base-piece. The base-piece has a later: ally-projecting arm, 0, which is hinged by a pin or rivet, c, to a lug or car, G secured fast to the frame portion A. As here represented, the lug or car is formed by a piece of metal bent at the middle to produce an eye, and

having its ends inserted through a hole in the frame portion A and turned or bent over, as shown at c, on the inner side of the frame portion, in order to secure the lug or car thereto.

As shown best in Figs. 1 and 3, the arm 0', which is hinged to the lug or ear 0, isof hol- 8c low or box-like form, so as to embrace the opposite ends of the lug or car, and all parts of the fastening, except the knob B, may be advantageously made of sheet metal stamped by dies into the desired form. Vhen the frame 8 5 portions A A are brought close together, the knob B may be engaged with or disengaged from the frame portion A by swinging the arm 0 in one or other direction upon its hinge or pivot 0.

I am aware that it is not new in bag or pocket-book frames to provide a fastening which consists, essentially, of a knob or block pivoted to one frame portion and engaging by a pin and recess with the other frame por 9 5 tion, and hence I do not seek to cover, broadly, such subject-matter as of my invention, but restrict my invention to a fastening in which the knob B is secured in a base-piece,

O, which latter is pivoted to one frame por- 1o) tion. This construction enables me to form gaging the frame portion A by a pin on one the arm whereby the knob is indirectly atentering a hole or recess in the other, the base- 15 tached through a pivot to one of the side piece 0, made separate from the knob and frames of sheet metal by means of suitable having a recess or seat. wherein the knob is 5 dies, and the knob and base-piece B C may be secured, and also having a laterally-extending separately finished by the different processes arm, 0, and the projecting lug or ear 0 on best adapted to their individual character the frame portion A, to Which the said arm is 20 and construction, and may then be secured tohinged, substantially as herein described. gether'in the manner described.

IO What I claim as my invention, and desire CHARLES BLUST' to secure by Letters Patent, is- Witnesses:

The combination, with the frame portions FREDK. HAYNES, A A, of a catch consisting of the knob B, en- HENRY J. MCBRIDE. 

